Muskegon High School - Said and Done Yearbook (Muskegon, MI)

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VVHO'S YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER? This is a partial list of teachers who helped make Muskegon High School great: Dorothy VanderKolk Andrews Emmanuel G. Appel Raymond Bauer Ebba H. Bedker Francis W. Beedon joseph D. Bicknell Henry V. Bolt Frederick Brail Walter Brooks Mildred Woodworth Brothers Mary T. Bryar Murel G. Burdick George S. Carlson Raymond C. Carlson L. Augusta Carpenter Laura A. Carpenter Claire C. Cook john A. Craig james Curnalia William C. Denton Elizabeth M. DeYoe Frank A. DeYoe Henry j. Douma jean Hammond Douma Frank Driscoll Paul Dunworth Celestia E. Eddy Margaret Drake Elliott Bertha Ellis Robert D. Ferris A. Verne Fuller Earl Fuller Earl F. Gasar Anthony E. Gilsdorf Ralph T. Guyer Forrest E. Haines Sophia Hammer Edmund Hanley Edith R. Hastings Marian C. Helvie Winifred Hubbell Kate Huen Donald lhrman j. Francis jacks N. Gertrude Kenney Wilbur C. Kensler Fred Kiskey Vera Klontz Cecelia M. Knoll Edwin Knudson Kenneth C. Kolberg Alice Prescott Kyes G. Walter Ladd Marie Snowfleet Larsen Robert Leitch Selma Leopold Addie Littlefield Verna H. Luther C. D. McLouth Agnes Mclntyre Ida E. McKinney june McNeil Thomas McShannock Eleanor G. Mabley George A. Manning Hilda Marshall Francis L. Martin Alexina Meier William Mayrose Donald Mooney Marcella O'Connor Theo Pack Nellie Parrish Russell O. Partington Harvey L. Paulson William H. Paulson Ethel Pihlstrom Ralph Plummer Franklin G. Poling Harry Potter L. A. Prescott Mabel Quail Ethel A. Raue Frances Kleaveland Redmond Leo Redmond Arthur j. Reed Harriett M. Reid jessie M. Reynolds Oren W. Rodewald Kenneth Rolfe Stanley Rolfe Hildegard Roos Ethel j. Sanford Bessie Sargeant Fay Mack Scharmer Milton Scherer Rex B. Sheathelm William L. Stewart Clarence W. Sundquist Douglas Tool Florence Tool Lewis Torrent john W. Toppen Winthrop G.Trautman Ida B. Turnbull Della VanderKolk Derwin j. Walvoord Clara Watson Gwendolyn Webster M. Berry Wood N. Walker Wright William H. Young R. A. Zimmerman

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DO YOU FZEIVIEIVIBEFK? When assemblies were held in the Hackley Manual auditorium, with faculty members all seated in the raised section at the back of the room? Riding down the dusty, cobwebby chute of the Manual fire escape? Senior banquets at the Occidental, and junior receptions iProms to more recent gradsj at the Women's Club? Who stole the clapper from the high school bell in 1899? Or who stacked all the books from the students' desks a few years later? Standing around in the cloakroom inthe old high school until you were late for session room? Attending basketball games at the Armory? Following the basketball team to Chicago in '23 when tlsey were trying for the national championship? Performing in the Senior Play at the Regent Theater? When students prepared and delivered the commencement speeches? Dr. Umbreit and Mr. Manning leading the college and high school graduates in the academic procession across Hackley Field? And the faculty in academic caps and gowns? The snake dances down Western Avenue to celebrate a football victory? When only boys could be cheerleaders? Those train excursions to Benton Harbor? Trying out for Carmenta Literary Society? Saki Takahashi, our exchange student from japan? joe Matel, the Stribley twins, Allie Anderson, Louis Berman, all great cheerleaders? How helpful Mr. Anderson was to the stage crews for dramatic and musical productions? Having your girl take you to the Femme-Invite dance? The Hackley Day Creed, written by Elmore Leppert? Thanksgiving Day football games with Grand Rapids Central? Mr. A. F. Temple followed by a train of small boys whose hope he would pay their way into the Saturday afternoon game always came true? Paul Cook's habit of returning the ball from kick-off for a touchdown? Commencement exercises on Hackley Field that ended in a downpour and hasty removal to the auditorium? Hanging over the waste baskets in the front hall with your best girl? Mr. McLouth's demerit system? When X , G and F pleased your parents, but P and U required a quick explanation? How weird faculty and students looked when they all wore gauze masks during the 1918 flu epidemic? That sinking feeling when you received your first blue deficiency slip? The poignant moment when Mrs. Parslow presented the Lt. Travers Parslow scholarship to the first winner? jimmy Dowell singing Dry Bones in assembly? Being stuck between floors in the Manual elevator when some joker opened the doors on another floor? How Warner Galombeck held his audience spellbound when he played his violin in assembly? Mr. AI Zuidema all dressed up for a Pep Assembly? 10

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Team sports for girls were not neglected. Basketball was played varsity championship teams were produced. In the fall there was fi had their own track events. Other schools were invited to participa gymnasium pool, inadequate as it seems today, made it possibl techniques and to practice for the delightful swim shows the girls pr The high school as well as the rest of Muskegon was touched by classes made many articles for the Red Cross for war use. When th were closed for a time, with teachers and students making up the Saturdays and foregoing spring vacation. Everyone was encouraged t Four young men who had been students at Muskegon High Sch honor four trees were planted at the south side of the high school. students formed a large circle around the trees and stood respectf base of each tree, appropriate words spoken and taps sounded. T 6 'E 6 O Vl e O u h before 1904, and through the years ld hockey, and in the spring the girls e in inter-school meets. The Hackley to learn the Red Cross lifesaving duced. lorld War I. Boys and girls in Manual coal shortage hit Muskegon, schools days missed by attending school on grow a victory garden. ol gave their lives in the war. ln their lly while flowers were placed at the e trees are now gone, replaced by a co As part of the Memorial Day services, Ll large boulder on the west side of the building and a memorial pla all wars. Muskegon enjoys a fine reputation for its high quality of scholar was recognized by naming the two top scholars as Valedictorian a the first of the honor cups was given by the Athletic Association t been killed in World War l. This award is made each year to t achievement in athletics and sterling qualities of manhood. Subseq C. W. Marsh, then President of the Board of Education, the athletic l for boys and girls were presented. Later the faculty provided th Plaque to be awarded the student showing the best citizenship ai chapter of the National Honor Society was organized, with juniors achievement selected as members. Now at graduation time the t are listed. But the most coveted honor of all remains to have on plaque or on one of the honor cups. By 1920 the high school building, even with the Annex c conveniently house the number of students, grades 8 through 12, years there had been talk of establishing a junior college for the Mus as to provide additional room for the growing high school, a nel Avenue on the land previously known as Deer Park. The closing o Avenue created the area now called the Central Campus. The nel 1926, junior college students held most of their classes on the thir the rest of the building as well as much of the Manual. The old hi High School. A unique feature of the new school was the auditorium located stage separated from the boys' and girls' gyms by a steel curtain wh was needed for band concerts, basketball games, proms, or other spe 12 Q s nd he O 6 o f nl B e in the foyer honoring the dead of hip. For many years fine scholarship Salutatorian of their class. ln 1923 o honor Clayton L. Beach, who had graduating senior for outstanding iently through the generosity of Mr. up for girls and the scholarship cups Muskegon High School Citizenship d service to the school. In 1948 a and seniors of outstanding scholastic p ten and the top tenth of the class 's name inscribed on the citizenship C E1 'l mpleted in 1908, could no longer who were in attendance. For several kegon area. To meet this need as well building was erected' on Southern parts of jefferson Street and Grand building was opened in September floor and the Senior High took over h school became the Central junior V V in the center of the building with the ch could be raised when a larger area cial activities.